Christopher Yang's Biography
Christopher C. Yang is an associate professor in the
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and the
director of the Digital Library Laboratory
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Arizona. He has also been an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
at the University of Hong Kong and a research
scientist
in the Department of Management
Information Systems at the University of Arizona. His recent research
interests include cross-lingual information retrieval and knowledge management, Web search
and mining, security informatics, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, information visualization,
digital library, and electronic commerce. He
has published over 150 referred journal and conference papers in Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support
Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Computer,
Information Processing and Management, Journal of Information Science, Graphical
Models and Image Processing, Optical Engineering, Pattern Recognition,
International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Applied Artificial Intelligence, IWWWC, SIGIR, ICIS,
CIKM, and more. He has edited several special issues on multilingual
information systems, knowledge management, and Web mining in JASIST and DSS.
He chaired and served in many international conferences and workshops. He has also frequently served as an invited panelist
in the NSF Review Panels in US. He was the chairman of the Association
for Computing Machinery Hong Kong Chapter.